Perhaps nowhere are visionaries more important than in motorsports and perhaps the most important of them for North American sports car racing was John Bishop, a refugee from the aircraft industry who became head of the Sports Car Club of America during the late 1950s

More than a week after it ended, the 2014 Tudor United SportsCar Championship era beginning race has left unanswered the critical question of whether or not the series’ audience will accept the NASCAR-inspired vision that has spawned the title chase.

If the purpose of testing is to discover what works and what doesn’t, this week’s two-day try-out session for the new combined TUDOR United SportsCar Championship at Daytona Int’l Speedway produced far less information than it left unanswered questions.

Rugged and in many ways untouched by time. As the home of the Mafia, it has lent itself as the setting for many crime novels and even major movies. For racing enthusiasts, though, the focus is less on organized crime and more on the last of the great natural road course events — the Targa Florio

To paraphrase an old cliché; the more things stay the same, the more they change. Although this might, at first glance, seem counterintuitive, a perfect example of this was to be found on the streets of Baltimore Labor Day weekend in an American Le Mans Series show that was more of a crashfest than it was a race

Over the years death has become relatively rare in motorsports, so when it happens as it did this past Saturday during the opening laps of the 24 Hours of Le Mans when Dane Allan Simosen suffered fatal injuries when his Aston Martin slammed into a tree, the hue and cry about the safety of the eight-and-a-half-mile Sarthe circuit is brought front and center